| Pseudonym |
Real name |
Notability |
Notes |
|---|
| Abel Djassi |
Amílcar Cabral |
Guinea-Bissauan politician |
|
| ABOVE |
Tavar Zawacki |
American abstract artist |
|
| Abu Ammar |
Yasser Arafat |
Palestinian president |
|
| Abu Obaida |
Hudayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout (alleged by the United States) |
Spokesperson of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades |
|
| Acharya S |
Dorothy Milne Murdock |
American Christ myth theorist |
|
| Adam Ant |
Stuart Goddard |
English Pop Musician |
|
| Adi Da |
Franklin Jones |
American writer |
|
| Al "Bummy" Davis |
Abraham Davidoff |
American boxer |
|
| Alexander Supertramp |
Christopher McCandless |
American hiker |
|
| Allan Kardec |
Hippolyte Rivail |
American religious figure |
|
| Amor de Cosmos |
William Smith |
2nd premier of British Columbia, Canada |
|
| Anarchasis Cloots |
Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce |
Prussian-French noble |
|
| Anthony Garotinho |
Anthony Matheus de Oliveira |
Brazilian broadcaster, politician, and criminal |
|
| Aristides |
William Lloyd Garrison |
American activist and journalist |
|
| Arkan |
Željko Ražnatović |
Serbian soldier and criminal |
|
| Armin S. |
(unknown) |
German financier |
|
| Ary Ecilaw |
Alexandrine Countess von Hutten-Czapska |
Polish novelist |
|
| Avicii |
Tim Bergling |
Swedish pop artist |
|
| Baby Face George Nelson |
Lester Gillis |
American criminal |
|
| Balthus |
Balthazar Klossowski de Rola |
French painter |
|
| Banksy |
(unknown) |
England-based street artist, political activist, and film director |
|
| Barefoot Bandit |
Colton Harris-Moore |
American former fugitive |
|
| Basshunter |
Jonas Altberg |
Swedish singer, record producer, songwriter and DJ |
|
| Bernard Shakey |
Neil Young |
Canadian musician |
|
| Bhanusimha |
Rabindranath Tagore |
Poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter |
|
| Billy the Kid |
Henry McCarty |
American criminal |
|
| Black Bart |
Charles Bowles |
English-American criminal |
|
| Bob Denard |
Gilbert Bourgeaud |
French mercenary |
|
| Bono |
Paul Hewson |
Lead singer, U2 |
|
| Bór |
Tadeusz Komorowski |
Polish soldier |
|
| Borelowski |
Michał Grażyński |
President of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego |
|
| Bramantino |
Bartolomeo Suardi |
Italian painter |
|
| Brother Andre |
André Bessette |
Canadian priest and saint |
|
| BTK |
Dennis Rader |
American serial killer |
|
| Bugsy Siegel |
Benjamin Siegelbaum |
American criminal |
|
| Butch Cassidy |
Robert Parker |
American criminal |
|
| Cafu |
Marcos Evangelista de Moraes |
Brazilian footballer |
|
| Caligula |
Gajus Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus |
Roman emperor |
|
| Calvin Harris |
Adam Richard Wiles |
Scottish DJ and Record Producer |
|
| Canaletto |
Giovanni Canale |
Italian painter |
|
| Caravaggio |
Michelangelo Merisi |
Italian painter |
|
| Careca |
Antônio de Oliveira Filho |
Brazilian footballer |
| Carlos Danger |
Anthony Weiner |
United States Congressperson |
|
| Carlos the Jackal |
Ilich Ramírez-Sánchez |
Terrorist |
|
| Caroline Marbouty |
Claire Brunne |
French writer |
|
| Cassandre |
Adolphe Mouron |
French painter |
|
| Celestilian |
Ruben Torke |
German author |
|
| Chad Ochocinco |
Chad Johnson |
American footballer |
|
| Cigoli |
Lodovico Cardi |
Italian painter |
|
| Coco Chanel |
Gabrielle Chanel |
Fashion designer |
|
| Colonel Tom Parker |
Andreas van Kuijk |
Musical entrepreneur |
|
| Coldmirror |
Kathrin Fricke |
Youtube creator |
|
| DAIM |
Mirko Reisser |
Graffiti artist |
|
| Darius Paul Dassault |
Darius Paul Bloch |
French general |
|
| D.B. Cooper |
Unknown |
American criminal |
aka Dan Cooper |
|
| Deco |
Anderson Luiz de Sousa |
Footballer |
|
| Dick Tiger |
Richard Ihetu |
Nigerian boxer |
|
| Dida |
Nélson de Jesus Silva |
Brazilian former footballer |
|
| Doctor Ch@os |
Joseph Konopka |
American terrorist |
|
| Donatello |
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi |
Italian Renaissance sculptor |
|
| Dosso Dossi |
Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri |
Italian painter |
|
| Duda |
Sérgio Paulo Barbosa Valente |
Portuguese footballer |
|
| Dutch Schultz |
Arthur Flegenheimer |
American mobster |
|
| El Greco |
Dominikos Theotokópulos |
Greek painter |
|
| Elizabeth Arden |
Florence Graham |
Canadian-American businesswoman |
|
| Emmanuel Goldstein |
Eric Corley |
Hacker |
|
| Erté |
Romain de Tirtoff |
French artist and designer |
|
| Estée Lauder |
Josephine Mentzer |
American businesswoman |
|
| Francis of Assisi |
Giovanni di Bernardone |
Italian Catholic saint |
|
| Francisco "Pancho" Villa |
José Arango Arámbula |
Mexican revolutionary general and politician |
|
| Frank Costello |
Francesco Castiglia |
Italian-American mobster |
|
| Frank Talk |
Stephen Biko |
Activist |
|
| Friedensreich Hundertwasser |
Friedrich Stowasser |
Visual artist |
|
| Garrincha |
Manuel Francisco dos Santos |
Brazilian footballer |
|
| Garry Kasparov |
Garik Weinstein |
Russian chess grandmaster, political activist and writer |
|
| Geki |
Giacomo Russo |
Italian racing driver |
|
| Germain |
Ernest Mandel |
Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher |
|
| Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
Gheorge Gheorghiu |
Former General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party |
|
| Gimax |
Carlo Franchi |
Italian racing driver |
|
| Giorgione |
Giorgio da Castelfranco |
Italian painter |
|
| Giottino |
Maso di Stefano |
Italian painter |
|
| Grabica; Grot; Kalina |
Stefan Rowecki |
Polish general |
|
| Gracchus Babeuf |
François-Noël Babeuf |
French political agitator and journalist |
|
| Green River Killer |
Gary Ridgway |
American serial killer |
|
| Grigory Zinoviev |
Ovsel Radymyslsky |
Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician |
|
| Grzegorz |
Tadeusz Pełczyński |
Polish army major general |
|
| Gus Hall |
Arvo Halberg |
Former General Secretary of Communist Party USA |
|
| H. Rap Brown |
Hubert Gerold Brown |
Activist |
|
| Halston |
Roy Halston Frowick |
American fashion designer |
|
| Happy Face Killer |
Keith Hunter Jesperson |
Canadian-American serial killer |
|
| He hate me |
Rod Smart |
American gridiron football player |
|
| Hellé Nice |
Mariette Hélène Delangle |
French racing car driver |
|
| Henri Cornet |
Henri Jaudry |
French cyclist |
|
| Henriett Seth F. |
Henrietta Fajcsák[1] |
Hungarian artist and autistic savant |
|
| Henry Arundel |
Henry Fitzalan-Howard |
British racing driver |
|
| Ho Chi Minh |
Nguyễn Sinh Cung |
Vietnamese communist leader |
|
| Houari Boumédiène |
Mohamed Boukharouba |
Former president of Algeria |
|
| Hubal |
Henryk Dobrzański |
Polish army commander |
|
| I-5 Killer |
Randall Woodfield |
American serial killer and rapist |
|
| Iceman |
Richard Kuklinski |
American criminal |
|
| Il Garofalo |
Benvenuto Tisi |
Italian painter |
|
| Il Pordenone |
Giovanni Licinio |
Italian painter |
|
| Il Sodoma |
Giovanni Bazzi |
Italian Renaissance painter |
|
| Kim Il Sung |
Song-ju Kim |
Former leader of North Korea |
|
| Ingahild Grathmer |
Margrethe II of Denmark |
Illustrator |
She illustrated The Lord of the Rings under this pseudonym. |
| J. Krzemień |
Florian Marciniak |
First Chief Scout in the Gray Ranks |
|
| J. Posadas |
Homero Cristali |
Italian-Argentine Trotskyist revolutionary |
|
| J.J. Lehto |
Jyrki Järvilehto |
Finnish racing driver |
|
| János Kádár |
János Csermanek |
Former leader of Hungary |
|
| Jean Jérome |
Michel Feintuch |
French Communist Activist |
|
| Jieshi Jiang |
Chiang Kai-shek |
Chinese politician and military leader |
|
| Jil Sander |
Heidemarie Jiline Sander |
German fashion designer |
|
| Jim McKay |
James McManus |
American television sports journalist |
|
| Jimmy Choo |
Choo Yeang Keat |
Malaysian-born fashion designer |
|
| Joe Louis |
Joseph Louis Barrow |
American boxer |
|
| Joel Ash |
David Padwa |
Author |
|
| John of God |
João Teixeira de Faria |
Brazilian faith healer |
|
| John Winter |
Louis Krages |
German racing driver |
|
| Johnny Dumfries |
John Crichton-Stuart |
British racing driver |
|
| Josef Stalin |
Ioseb Dzhugashvili |
Former leader of the Soviet Union |
|
| Joseph Estrada |
Joseph Ejército |
Former president of the Philippines |
|
| Joseph of Cupertino |
Giuseppe Desa |
Italian Franciscan friar |
|
| Josip Broz Tito |
Josip Broz |
Former leader of Yugoslavia |
|
| Juice WRLD |
Jarad Anthony Higgins |
American rapper |
|
| Kaká |
Ricardo dos Santos Leite |
Brazilian footballer |
|
| Karl Lagerfeld |
Karl Lagerfeldt |
German fashion designer |
|
| Kaws |
Brian Donnelly |
American artist and designer |
|
| Khaosai Galaxy |
Sura Saenkham |
Thai boxer and kickboxer |
|
| Kid McCoy |
Norman Selby |
American boxer |
|
| Korczak |
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski |
Polish military leader |
|
| Kouji Takanohara |
Kouji Hanada |
Sumo Wrestler |
|
| Kuba |
Jakub Błaszczykowski |
Polish footballer |
|
| Lawina |
Tadeusz Komorowski |
Polish military leader |
|
| La Pasionaria |
Dolores Ibárruri |
Former leader of the Communist Party of Spain |
|
| Le Corbusier |
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret |
Swiss-French architect |
|
| Leclerc |
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque |
French general |
|
| Legija |
Milorad Ulemek |
Serbian military commander and criminal |
|
| Leon Trotsky |
Lev Bronstein |
Russian Marxist revolutionary |
|
| Lev Kamenev |
Lev Rosenfeld |
Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician |
|
| Lo Spagna |
Giovanni di Petra |
Italian painter |
|
| Lucien Petit-Breton |
Lucien Mazan |
French cyclist |
|
| Lucky Luciano |
Salvatore Lucania |
Italian-American mobster |
|
| Machine Gun Kelly |
George Barnes |
American gangster |
|
| Madeon |
Hugo Pierre Leclercq |
French musician |
|
| Madame Fraya |
Valentine Dencausse |
French chiromancer |
|
| Madame de Thèbes |
Anne-Victorine Savigny / Matylda Průšová |
French (Savigny) / Czech (Průšová) fortunetellers |
|
| Mahatma Gandhi |
Mohandas Gandhi |
Indian independence activist |
|
| Malaclypse the Younger |
Gregory Hill |
American writer and co-founder of Discordianism |
|
| Man Ray |
Emmanuel Radnitzky |
American visual artist and photographer |
|
| Manolo Blahnik |
Manuel Blahnik Rodriguez |
Spanish fashion designer |
|
| Marc Chagall |
Moishe Shagall |
Belarusian-French artist |
|
| Marc Ecko |
Marc Milecofsky |
American fashion designer |
|
| Mark Rothko |
Marcus Rothkowitz |
Abstract painter |
|
| Mark Twain |
Samuel Clemens |
American Novelist/Humorist |
|
| Martin Thembisile Hani |
Chris Hani |
Anti-apartheid activist |
|
| Masaccio |
Tommaso Cassai |
Italian Renaissance painter |
|
| Masaru Wakanohara |
Masaru Hanada |
Japanese sumo wrestler |
|
| Mata Amritanandamayi |
Sudhamani |
Indian Hindu spiritual leader |
|
| Mata Hari |
Margaretha MacLeod |
Dutch courtesan and spy |
|
| Max Factor Jr. |
Maksymilian Faktorowicz |
American businessperson |
|
| Meyer Lansky |
Meyer Suchowljansky |
Russian-American gangster |
|
| Michael Fenne |
David Kim Stanley |
Founder of Pixelon |
|
| Míchel |
José Miguel González Martín del Campo |
Spaniard footballer |
|
| Michel Pablo |
Michel Raptis |
Egyptian-Greek activist |
|
| Miss Cleo |
Youree Harris |
American television psychic |
|
| Miu Miu |
Miuccia Prada |
Italian fashion designer |
|
| Mo Martin |
Melissa Martin |
American golfer |
|
| Monter |
Antoni Chruściel |
Polish military officer |
|
| Moses David |
David Berg |
American cultist |
|
| Mother Angelica |
Rita Rizzo |
American nun |
|
| Mother Jones |
Mary Jones |
Irish-American activist |
|
| Mother Teresa |
Agnes Bojaxhiu |
Albanian nun |
|
| Mr. Baldy |
Brian Keith Jones |
Australian criminal |
|
| Mr. Death |
Dennis Allen |
Australian criminal |
|
| Mr. Rent-a-Kill |
Christopher Flannery |
Australian assassin |
|
| Mr. Stinky |
Raymund Edmunds |
Australian murderer |
|
| Murph the Surf |
Jack Murphy |
American murderer |
|
| Murray the Hump |
Murray Humphreys |
American criminal |
|
| Mutilator |
William McDonald |
Serial Killer |
|
| Nahuel Moreno |
Hugo Bressano |
Argentinian politician |
|
| Nenê |
Maybyner Rodney Hilário |
Brazilian basketballer |
|
| Niedźwiadek |
Leopold Okulicki |
Polish general |
|
| Night Stalker |
Richard Ramirez |
American serial killer |
|
| Nil |
August Emil Fieldorf |
Polish brigadier general |
|
| Notch |
Markus Persson |
Swedish former game programmer |
|
| Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst |
Kerry Wendell Thornley |
American author |
|
| Orsza |
Stanisław Broniewski |
Polish economist and soldier |
|
| Paco Rabanne |
Francisco Rabanedo Cuervo |
Basque fashion designer |
|
| Padre Pio |
Francesco Forgione |
Italian priest and mystic |
|
| Papa Doc |
François Duvalier |
President of Haiti |
|
| Parmigianino |
Girolamo Mazzola |
Italian printmaker and painter |
|
| Pelé |
Edson Arantes do Nascimento |
Brazilian footballer |
|
| Phoenix Jones |
Benjamin Fodor |
American vigilante and martial artist |
|
| Pierre Delecto |
Mitt Romney |
Former United States Senator |
He used the pseudonym on twitter.[2] |
| Pierre Levegh |
Pierre Bouillin |
French auto racer |
|
| Pink |
Alecia Moore |
American pop musician |
|
| Pisanello |
Antonio Pisano |
Italian sculptor and painter |
|
| Pol Pot |
Saloth Sar |
Cambodian politician and murderer |
|
| Ponury |
Jan Piwnik |
Polish soldier |
|
| Postcard Bandit |
Brenden Abbott |
Australian robber |
|
| Prachanda |
Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
Former prime minister of Nepal |
|
| Radosław |
Jan Mazurkiewicz |
Polish soldier |
|
| Rakoń |
Stefan Rowecki |
Polish general and journalist |
|
| Ram Dass |
Richard Alpert |
American religious leader |
|
| Raphael |
Raffaello da Urbino |
Italian painter and architect |
|
| Raymond Kopa |
Raymond Kopaszewski |
French footballer |
|
| Red Baron |
Manfred von Richthofen |
German soldier |
|
| Ricco |
Erich Wassmer |
Swiss painter |
|
| Rivaldo |
Vitor Borba Ferreira |
Brazilian footballer |
|
| Rocket Ismail |
Raghib Ismail |
American football player |
|
| Rocky Marciano |
Rocco Marchegiano |
American boxer |
|
| ROJO |
David Quiles Guilló |
Artist |
|
| Ronaldinho |
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira |
Brazilian footballer |
|
| Ronaldo |
Ronaldo Nazário de Lima |
Brazilian footballer |
|
| Ronwaldo Reyes |
Fernando Poe Jr. |
Filipino actor, director, and politician |
|
| Saïd Moustapha Mahdjoub |
Gilbert Bourgeaud |
French mercenary |
|
| SAMO |
Jean-Michel Basquiat |
American artist |
|
| Sara Jane Olson |
Kathleen Soliah |
American robber |
|
| Sathya Sai Baba |
Sathya Narayana Raju |
Indian guru |
|
| Satoshi Nakamato |
(unknown) |
Inventor of Bitcoin |
|
| Sister Dora |
Dorothy Pattison |
English nun |
|
| Son of Sam |
David Berkowitz |
American serial killer |
|
| Spy |
Leslie Ward |
British artist |
|
| Stanley Ketchel |
Stanislaus Kiecal |
American boxer |
|
| Student |
William Sealy Gosset |
British statistician |
|
| Sugar Ray Robinson |
Walker Smith Jr. |
American boxer |
|
| Sundance Kid |
Harry Longabaugh |
American robber |
|
| Suso |
Jesús Fernandez Sáez |
Spaniard footballer |
|
| Swami Vivekananda |
Narandranath Dutta |
Indian monk and philosopher |
|
| Swoon |
Caledonia Curry |
American graffiti artist |
|
| Taras Chuprynka |
Roman Shukhevych |
Leader of Ukrainian Insurgent Army |
|
| Ted Grant |
Isaac Blank |
South African-British activist |
|
| The Edge |
David Evans |
Lead guitarist, U2 |
|
| Thérèse of Lisieux |
Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin |
French nun and saint |
|
| Tiger Woods |
Eldrick Woods |
American golfer |
|
| Tintoretto |
Jacopo Robusti |
Italian painter |
|
| Titian |
Tiziano Vecelli |
Italian painter |
|
| Tom of Finland |
Touko Laaksonen |
Finnish visual artist |
|
| Tony Cliff |
Yigael Glückstein |
Israeli-English activist |
|
| Tony Zale |
Anthony Zaleski |
American boxer |
|
| Tristán Marof |
Gustavo Navarro |
Bolivian activist |
|
| Ulay |
Frank Uwe Leysiepen |
German artist |
|
| Unabomber |
Ted Kaczynski |
American serial killer |
|
| Utisz |
István Orosz |
Hungarian visual artist |
|
| VaGla |
Piotr Waglowski |
Polish activist |
|
| Vecchietta |
Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo |
Italian painter |
|
| Viktor Suvorov |
Vladimir Rezun |
Russian-British Soviet defector and author |
|
| Vladimir Lenin |
Vladimir Ulyanov |
1st head of the Soviet Union |
|
| VLEZ |
Claudio Ribeiro Velez |
Artist - Architect |
|
| Voltaire |
François-Marie Arouet |
French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher |
|
| Vyacheslav Molotov |
Vyacheslav Skryabin |
Russian politician |
|
| Waxey Gordon |
Irving Wexler |
American gangster |
|
| WhoIsParadise |
Marcus Dawes |
British-American musician and activist |
|
| Wilk |
Aleksander Krzyżanowski |
Polish soldier |
|
| William Andersen |
Christian Wilhelm Allers |
French cricketeer |
|
| William Rabbit |
Katay Don Sasorith |
8th prime minister of Laos |
|
| Willy Brandt |
Herbert Frahm |
Chancellor of Germany |
|
| Xanana Gusmão |
José Alexandre Gusmão |
3rd prime minister of Timor-Leste |
|
| Yorkshire Ripper |
Peter Sutcliffe |
English serial killer |
|
| XXXTentacion |
Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy |
American rapper |
|
| Ye |
Kanye Omari West |
American rapper |
He often used the mononym during the late 2010s, even naming an album as such, although he legally changed his name to "Ye" in October 2021. |
| Zico |
Arthur Antunes Coimbra |
Brazilian footballer and manager |
|
| Znicz |
Tadeusz Komorowski |
Polish soldier |
|
| Zośka |
Tadeusz Zawadzki |
Polish soldier |
|